What is your pigeon gun?

[Hammer Gun]

This will make for a good article in the Parker Pages, Fall edition, I will try to do a little write up on what I believe is a true pigeon gun, I would like to see a true pigeon shoot, although It would be useless for me to enter I could not hit the broad side of a barn, but it would be interesting to watch and see the type of guns used. It seems as these shooters ordered their guns they were ordered with very special dimensions to fit them, and as they got later in years and they ordered another gun the specification of the gun changed a little, anyone noticed this? Gary

[Tom Hawkins]

I acquired this gun over thirty years ago cheap because it had no safety and It would break open when fired. Years later I found out why and fixed it. Oscar Gaddy informed me about the live bird option and that I should not mess with it as I was considering adding a safety. This live bird was made in 1901. It has 32" barrels choked Improved modified in both tubes. Measurements are LOP 13.75 over Hawkins pad, DAC 1.5, DAH 2. It has a repair code of LK3. It received new barrels as it now has ejectors that are Parker for sure with the overload proved stamp. There is a small 3 on the back of the barrel flats close to the ejector. I had never seen a number there so I checked the chambers and they are 3". I would like to know if anyone else has encountered the small 3. It will really smoke clays.